All right, if you have your Bibles with you, let's open them up today to the book of Luke.

In the New Testament, Luke chapter 10 is where we'll start as you're turning there or pulling

up the Bible on your phones.

Let me ask at all of our campuses, if all of you guys could participate, be real honest,

how many of you would say that you occasionally or often feel pretty stressed?

Would you raise your hands high if that's you?

Hands going up all over the place.

How many of you would say, you know, bills are coming in from the holidays and the economy

is kind of tight and things may not be as loose as they used to be?

How many of you say that you occasionally or even often feel some financial tension or

stress?

A lot of people do.

I'm curious as to how many of you would say, I really wish that I had either more time

for myself because I don't do much for myself or I wish I had more time to spend with the

people that I love.

How many would say that would be me?

Hands going up all over the place on all of these questions because we live in a culture

that pushes us to the limits, buy more, do more, accomplish more, conquer more, more,

more, more, more, more.

And I would argue that most of us are living at an unbiblical and unsustainable pace.

It's insane what normal is today.

So much so that even our kids, I know seven or eight-year-old kids that on top of homework

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